Walks in London . e to the right high and mighty prince John Dudley, late Duke of Nor-thumberland, by whom she had yssew 13 children, that is to wete 8 sonnes and 5daughters ; and after she had lived yeres 46, she departed this transitory worldat her manor of Chelse ye 22 daye of January in ye second yere of ye reigne of 1 The Duchess bequeathed to the Duchess of Alva, lady in waiting to QueenMary, her green parrot, having nothing else worthy of her. 2 This precious relic is disgracefully ill cared for. Chelsea Old Church 331 our sovereyne Lady Queue Mary the first, andJesu have mercy. n Ano.
Walks in London . e to the right high and mighty prince John Dudley, late Duke of Nor-thumberland, by whom she had yssew 13 children, that is to wete 8 sonnes and 5daughters ; and after she had lived yeres 46, she departed this transitory worldat her manor of Chelse ye 22 daye of January in ye second yere of ye reigne of 1 The Duchess bequeathed to the Duchess of Alva, lady in waiting to QueenMary, her green parrot, having nothing else worthy of her. 2 This precious relic is disgracefully ill cared for. Chelsea Old Church 331 our sovereyne Lady Queue Mary the first, andJesu have mercy. n Ano. 1555 : on whose soule The altar-tomb which stood beneath the canopy is destroyed, and alittle tablet which was affixed to it is let into the wall above ; it com-memorates a second time Catherine, wife of the Earl of Huntingdon,and daughter of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, 1620. Entering the chancel, we come to the tomb which Sir Thomas Moreerected in his lifetime (1532) to his own memory and that of his two. _^TipifiiiiiiE^ THE MORE TOMB, CHELSEA. wives. Hither he removed the remains of his first wife, Joan, themother of his children, the wife whom he married, * though his affec-tion most served him to her second sister, because he thought itwould be a grief and some blemish to the eldest to have her youngersister preferred before Here his second wife—a widow, Middleton, of whom he was wont to say that she was nee bella,nee puella —was buried. Hither also, according to Aubrey, Weever, 1 Cresacre Mores Life of Sir T. More. 332 Walks in London and Anthony a Wood, Mores own headless body was removed fromSt. Peters Chapel in the Tower, where it was first interred ; butneither his son-in-law Roper, nor his great-grandson C. More, whowrote his Life, mention the fact, which is rendered improbable byMargaret Roper having moved Bishop Fishers body from AllhallowsBarking, that it might rest with his friend in the Tower Thehead of Sir Thomas More is pre
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